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  1. Re:Cafestol? on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    The whole cholesterol thing is bogus- they haven't proven that high blood levels cause disease.

  2. Re:Feds, pick one or the other! on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    Might want to find out what these folks are doing- they will take your scrap and send you coins. I bet you they keep records....

    http://www.midwestrefineries.com/

  3. He should change his model on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 1

    Accept credit cards, use the money to buy bitcoin and send people their coin... doesn't have the free market appeal like what he was doing but would get people the product they want.

  4. Re:PC-free households on Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject · · Score: 1

    A raspberry pi is cheaper than a textbook- seems like something you could issue to kids.

  5. Re: It's official on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    Wait till a country like Sweden releases a pre-mined digital currency and pegs their 'regular' currency to it....

  6. Re:Of course it could be big. on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    Make bitcoin 'bills' where the private key can only be accessed by tearing them open.... problem solved.

  7. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Quite correct... I would bet that the majority of violence is committed with this mindset.

  8. Epigenetics on Scientists Find Olfactory "Memory" Passed Between Generations In Mice · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in the article... seems like a repeatable experiment to prove its existence.

  9. Medical Technology on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 2

    Medical technology keeping unhealthy people alive far longer than it used to....

    http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/11/26/1511238/why-scott-adams-wished-death-on-his-dad

  10. Re:after all these years on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    He dispensed with many of the tribal customs to build his army based on the decimal system and absorbing conquered tribes, controlling looting and a host of other things.

  11. Patent Issue on Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat · · Score: 1

    Would this undermine claims on Slim Jim proprietary recipe?

  12. Re:Okay, one odd fact... on Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat · · Score: 1

    There is no better thing for a mummy to eat, than tasty morsels of mummy meat!

    No chance of it going bad in their abdominal cavity.

  13. Re:after all these years on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford if you are interested.

  14. Re:after all these years on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ghengis was known for breaking many Mongol social customs which is one of the reasons he was so successful. The legend goes that in an effort to hide the tomb all of the workers were executed and then the soldiers familiar with the area were killed as well....

  15. Re:Granularity in services on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Then that's how they should have built it. Write a dummy api layer and let an interface team go to town while the backend people work out the transactions. Sure, there would be problems but at least you would have a clean front end implementation.

  16. Re:CNC machines can do that already on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 2

    Some geometries are impossible to make with CNC and machined parts always weigh more... if a part meets it's specification who cares how it was done?

  17. Re:"I feel?" on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 1

    I guess if you are funding the study yourself, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

  18. Re:"I feel?" on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 1

    That was my impression of the detractors as well. What would be the point of doing experiments if something is well understood? You have to start somewhere...

  19. Re:The reason is private insurance on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    Personally I think they should have rolled out the 'read' part of the site last year, which would have worked out many of the bugs with the interface and servers without upsetting a lot of people.

  20. Re:Can it be used to print CPUs? on New Technology For Converting a Metal To a Semiconductor With a Laser · · Score: 1

    That is not how this would be used- printing millions of circuits one at a time would take too long which is why lithography works so well- you can print billions of circuits with a single exposure. Most likely the application would be some sort of self assembling or dynamic cpu.

  21. Re:20 year lifespan on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    LED bulbs require current limiting in the power supply as well or they will burn up- so functionally the have the same requirement as a HPS or fluorescent bulb.

  22. Re:Many of those bulbs due for replacement anyway on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind to that HPS bulbs, ballasts etc. are pretty expensive- my guess is an installation costs at least a couple hundred each. There aren't any downside to the retrofit that I can think of.

  23. Re:Isn't this universal? on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 2

    At least they could have given a US company an opportunity to screw this up....

  24. Re:I can't believe ... on White House Official Tracked Down and Fired Over Insulting Tweets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am not able to attribute the quote but it goes something like this- "you see a person's true face when they are wearing a mask..."

  25. Re:Now it gets worse. on US Government Shutdown Ends · · Score: 1

    Japan/China buttressed by Dollar debasement and deficit spending. It will end eventually.